Whether they're finding better ways to detect breast cancer, changing the face of agriculture, or monitoring athletes' fitness, these three students all have one thing in common: they're dependent on code.

Four years at Duke can take you anywhere: perhaps to 23 countries for research and travel, like Hector Rivera, or to a Truman Scholarship, like Jay Ruckelshaus, Dominique Beaudry or Jamie Bergstrom. Explore stories and scholarship from the class of 2015. What might yours be?

The Duke Philosophy: Access and Flexibility.

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Scholarly Pursuit

We guide our students to find their own academic paths by helping them to reason, analyze and understand in unprecedented ways. The undergraduate experience at Duke is characterized by a spirit of academic energy, exploration and challenge.

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Influenced Study

We are a research university with resources to connect undergraduate education to the processes of inquiry and discovery. Duke students explore ideas by collaborating directly with our exceptional faculty in a program of study that focuses on interdisciplinary exploration.

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Engaged Immersion

A student's education doesn't end at the classroom door. We provide an incredible variety of opportunities for students to enhance and supplement in-class learning with hands-on experiences, service in the community—both locally and globally—and development of leadership skills.